{"product_id":"lines-of-authority-steven-n-zwicker-9780801483363","title":"Lines of Authority","description":"\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the turbulent years between the execution of Charles I and the triumph of William III, Steven N. Zwicker reads English literature as a series of brilliant and deeply engaged polemical contests. Zwicker juxtaposes overtly polemical writings--pamphlets, broadsides, and ballads--with canonical works, including epic, historical verse, tragedy, and satire, in order to demonstrate how literature not only reflected on political action but also formed an important site of political exchange. Zwicker maintains that the sources of Restoration culture lay within the civil war years of the 1640s and that the memory of those years shaped writing and politics for the remainder of the century. In sensitive readings of such classic texts as Walton's \u003ci\u003eCompleat Angler, \u003c\/i\u003e Marvell's \u003ci\u003eFirst Anniversary and Last Instructions\u003c\/i\u003e, Milton's \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, Dryden's \u003ci\u003eAnnus Mirabilis \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Absalom and Achitophel\u003c\/i\u003e, and Locke's \u003ci\u003eTwo Treatises of Government\u003c\/i\u003e, he shows how these texts both engaged with pamphlet, squib, and broadside and challenged one another over the possession of cultural authority. Zwicker's analysis provides a new understanding of the connections between politics and aesthetics in the later seventeenth century and an appreciation for the texture of this culture. \u003cbr\u003eSuccessfully integrating literary history and political analysis, Lines of Authority will be valuable reading for a broad audience in the fields of Restoration and Protectorate literature, literary history, cultural and intellectual history, and the history of political thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven N. Zwicker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801483360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801483363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.05w x 0.66d","brand":"Steven N. Zwicker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47425069285631,"sku":"9780801483363","price":51.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_71416473-c855-49f6-9f7e-73eb36db7824.jpg?v=1761536795","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lines-of-authority-steven-n-zwicker-9780801483363","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}